Hardware consolidation played a major role in achieving efficiencies.
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Innovative dfficiency & sustainability is a key issue for datacenter consolidation projects.
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Datacenter Savings by the Numbers
The Broomfield datacenter is Sun's fourth energy-efficient facility, and it builds on the designs used in the Santa Clara, California, Blackwater, UK, and Bangalore, India datacenters. Broomfield is modular and scalable, and it incorporates space consolidation, water savings, chemical reduction, and free cooling as well as Sun's energy-efficient servers and storage. The numbers add up to significant savings:
- Consolidates 496,000 square feet to 126,000 square feet
- Saves $4 million by reducing 126,000 square feet of raised floor to 700 square feet
- Reduces electrical consumption by 1 million kWh each month
- Chillers used are 32% more efficientlthan ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) standards require
- Waterside economizer enables free cooling for more than one-third of the year
- Fly wheel UPS eliminates lead and chemical waste created by batteries
- Dolphin water treatment systems eliminates chemicals and saves 675,000 gallons of water annually
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Key Savings in Broomfield
Sun's new datacenter:
- Saves over $1,000,000 in electrical costs
- Reduces CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons per year
- Reduces Sun's corporate carbon footprint by 6%
A Datacenter in Pictures
Get an in-depth view of the new energy-efficient Broomfield datacenter, including Sun's Pod Architecture, advanced rack cooling systems, and more.
Out With the Old, and in With the New Eco-Efficient Systems
Replacing old, outdated systems with new servers and storage designed for energy and space efficiency is a significant step in greening a datacenter. At the Broomfield facility, Sun was able to compress space 88 percent by replacing old equipment with the Sun Fire T2000 Server with CoolThreads technology, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server, and Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server as well as Sun Open Storage.
Hundreds of Sun customers have consolidated their datacenters and made enormous strides towards greening them, and you can read about them here.
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Green Your Datacenter
With Sun's Datacenter Strategy, Design, and Build Out services, Sun uses its datacenter design methodologies and best practices to help you maximize space utilization, minimize operating costs, and accommodate future growth in your organization's datacenter. These new services complement the Sun Eco Services Suite.
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Conservation Champion
When California Senator Barbara Boxer presented Sun with the Conservation Champion award given to a tech company, Greg Papadopoulos gave her a tour of the Santa Clara green datacenter.
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